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- Gnome-schedule 2.1.0 -

Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power
of crontab (vixie-cron, dcron) and at to manage your crontab file and
provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports
recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the
future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed,
tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.

New in this release:
Apart from fixing a number of annoying bugs (including where you couldn’t enter times above 13:49), and long awaited X support. You should now be able to set up your X applications to be run by cron and at, and as long as you are logged in they will be run. This does depend on you having you X server running on the same DISPLAY. Please note that this feature is still experimental.

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=112183&filename=gnome-schedule-2.1.0.tar.gz

Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

For more information and screenshots see our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

I have gotten alot of different bug reports and problems sent to me when people try to use gnome-schedule, and quite a few of them are actually crontab and atd problems; mostly just them not being there at all. This post tries to give you an idea about how you can figure out what is wrong; or how it is supposed to work. Exactly how to set up crontab and at differs for all distributions and they all have their own tutorials.

If something works; don’t proceed through the rest of the steps – they are meant as suggestions to solutions. And if you have it working they might break it. That means; no guarantees!

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X output

The X output feature for Gnome Schedule is now ready for testing, this means that you can easily schedule graphical applications without worrying about the DISPLAY variable. Gnome Schedule also checks before each run if there is a working X connection; in other words that you are logged in.

There is still needed some testing before the next version will be released and it would be great if you could try out the current development branch.

To get the sources do:
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-schedule/trunk gnome-schedule

You can build and install it into a temporary directory by doing:
$ cd gnome-schedule/
$ ./autogen.sh –prefix=/path/to/tmp
$ make; make install

to run it from there do:
$ cd /path/to/tmp/bin
$ ./gnome-schedule

If you have any problems or suggestions file them on the gnome bugzilla. More details on how to build can be found in the README.

- gaute

- Gnome-schedule 2.0.2 -

It turns out that a bug in Python 2.4’s locale module has affected the two latest Gnome Schedule releases, this release comes with yet a new way to work with at. And I hope our efforts to create a backend that is compatible with all distributions, locales and versions of at finally has borne fruits. For those that it interests we are now using the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable to get an expected output.

Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power
of crontab (vixie-cron, dcron) and at to manage your crontab file and
provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports
recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the
future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed,
tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.

Fixed in this release:
* New parsing system for the at backend
* Using the new icon for applet

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: Sourceforge
Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

More information and screenshots on our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

Kind regards,

Gaute Hope

I created a small widget deriving of GtkWindow which I called GtkDrop (I prepended the Gtk in hope that it might be useful enough to get included in gtk+).

I once wanted to create a popup calendar for gnome-schedule and this is basically that code put into a widget (and ported to C).

It is intended to be a ‘popup’/'dropdown’ container where you can add any widget and it will behave similar to menus or comboboxes. And you will be able to use the widget inside it, ie: write in a GtkEntry or press a GtkButton.

Here is a screenshot:

In case you want to try it out download it, the test program is included.

Download here.

Something not working ? (probably) Suggestions ? Send me an email.

Read on for the full README and some more information on design and how to use it.
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Our new mayor release, the recent 2.0.0, introduced a few annoying bugs. Through quick bug reports and helpful patches they have been fixed in this release.

Fixed in this release:
* Bug 513330: Applied patch from Frank Arnold fixing wrong locale category (LC_ALL -> LC_TIME)
* Bug 513330: Applied patch from Frank Arnold fixing mainwindow template button.
* Desktop icon using the correct .svg icon
* Installing icons under $prefix/share/pixmaps/gnome-schedule
* Only trying to load data files from current location if launched with ‘–debug’

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=112183&package_id=254297&release_id=573528
Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

More information and screenshots on our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

- gaute

Been fixing (or applying patches from Frank Arnold) on some pretty annoying bugs in gnome-schedule after the release. But now it should be ready, and I will make a new release soon.

Started using OpenBox, it is great, I am getting more and more annoyed by the more and more heavy desktop environments. But they are handy to have to pick out the particular tools from.

Finally figured out why auto mounting stopped working.
gparted prevents all removable storage to be mounted while it is running, but removes this policy at exit so that the original settings apply. However if you kill it you have this file leftover making trouble.

High on Hepatitis. (Vaccinated)

Here is an ebuild for for gnome-schedule-2.0.0-rc1:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-schedule/trunk/dist/gentoo/gnome-schedule-2.0.0_rc1.ebuild?revision=1041&view=markup

I have made alot of changes since the release, and when the updated documentation is ready (thanks to Rodrigo M. Fombellida) I will most likely make a new rc release in the hope that also the translations of the documentation will be updated. And then eventually.. the final 2.0 should be ready.

Current, managing templates:

While working on the calendar for the at editor I run into another inlogicality with gtk, it turnes out that on Ubuntu w.get_position () returns the position without the decorators, while on Gentoo (and probably others) the decorators are included. I am now appending the offset i get from w.window->get_geometry () to get_position () and hope that the behaviour is the same on Ubuntu.

Update 2007-12-26:
Seems get_geometry and get_position didn’t do the trick, get_origin () however behaves correctly on both Ubuntu and Gentoo. Which makes me wonder a bit of the use of especially get_position, but the get_geometry and get_frame_extents or get_root_origin neither makes the confusion smaller.

- gaute

I have released rc1 of gnome-schedule-2.0.0.

• Screenshots
• Download

read on for the full release note.
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- Release Gnome Schedule 1.2.1 -

It is time for the (most likely) last release in the 1.x series of
gnome-schedule (more information under), there are fairly few updates
since the recent 1.2.0 release, but although it was meant as a last
translation update I some significant bugs have been fixed (summary of
changelog under).

Also worth mentioning is that it soon will be 2.0.0 release, but it
still needs some more testing. If you are interested in helping to
test it out or just want to try it feel free to send me a note.

Other than that it is not much to say about this one. Happy scheduling!

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